Known for offering provocative commentary on a wide range of issues, including comparing the modern American government to Nazi Germany in a March 2014 interview with Breitbart, and at the 2013 Values Voters Summit, saying that Obamacare is "the worst thing that has happened in this nation since slavery."

Timeline:1977-1978 - Intern in general surgery at The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.

1994 - With his wife, founds the Carson Scholars Fund, which facilitates leisure reading for children and funds college scholarships for students with strong academics and humanitarian achievement.

1997 - Primary neurosurgeon on the team that performs the first fully successful surgery to separate Type 2 vertical craniopagus twins (joined at the top of the head and facing opposite directions), where both twins survive and are neurologically normal.

March 2, 2017 - Carson is confirmed as HUD Secretary with a 58-41 vote in the Senate.

February 2018 -CNN obtains a November 2017 complaint from HUD's former chief administration officer, who said she was told to "find money" beyond the legal $5,000 limit for redecorating Carson's office. In one instance, she alleges that a supervisor said that "$5,000 will not even buy a decent chair." Soon after, it is revealed that HUD spent $31,000 to replace a dining room set for the office. Carson says in a statement to CNN that he was "surprised" about the order and had it canceled.

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